skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> getting people to use even the first layer of threads is very difficult, especially non-technical people

Indeed. We use Google Chat which is roughly a Slack clone in terms of structure. A discussion will start at the root level, and then branch into a thread after a few comments, but some users will miss this and continue to use the root level, which of course gets mixed into unrelated comments. It’s easy to create a mess, and it’s even worse when a discussion has multiple threads.

This “thread-based” style of space/channel was forced upon Google Chat users late last year. Prior to that, we had the option of “topic-based” channels, where every discussion had its own thread and there was no root level. Any reply to a topic would bump the topic into view. These were great for some use cases (one topic for each software issue, one topic for each support case, etc), and were easy to understand for non-technical people, because you could explain it like “each topic is like an email chain”. We got into the habit of summarizing the first comment of each topic, which always remained visible, so you could browse the list of discussions, again, much like email.

Anything that you can relate to email is great for the non-tech crowd.
A bit off-topic since not applicable for iPad:

Adding also M3 MAX: 86072

I wonder the results if the test would be done on Asahi Linux some day. Apple implementation is fairly unoptimized AFAK.
Rising housing prices in the US is basically how a lot of people are able to retire - and if they're lucky, provide some gift to their children/grand-children to start off.

This causes people near retirement age to fiercely oppose anything that would devalue their house. It represents their life's savings.
Southeast Alaska
So if you buy a house for 200k, keep it for 30 years and sell for 700k, you have to pay tax

But buy a house for 200k, sell after 15 years for 450k, buy a new one for 450k, then sell that after 15 years for 700k, you pay no tax?
Social Security retirees face automatic cut in 9 years
At this point, there's two fundamentally different types of computing that will likely never be mergeable in a satisfactory way.

We now have 'content consumption platforms' and 'content creation platforms'.

While attempts have been made to try and enable some creation on locked-down touchscreen devices, you're never going to want to try and operate a fully-featured version of Photoshop, Maya, Visual Studio, etc on them. And if you've got a serious workstation with multiple large monitors and precision input devices, you don't want to have dumbed-down touch-centric apps forced upon you Win8-style.

The bleak future that seems likely is that the 'content creation platforms' become ever more niche and far more costly. Barriers to entry for content creators are raised significantly as mainstream computing is mostly limited to locked-down content consumption platforms. And Linux is only an option for as long as non-locked-down hardware is available for sensible prices.
I get them confused all the time and you'd be in for a ride if you got Outer Wilds while expecting Outer Worlds, but the (G)GP actually mentioned both of them.
The logo in upper-left links to zed.dev, if that's what you mean.

This is not always great for accessibility (they don't have alt=, title=, or aria-*= attributes on the <a> or <img> tags) but seems to be a common pattern.
Required reading of books I couldn't relate to played a big role in me stopping reading for fun but I don't place that blame on my teachers for it. I doubt they had the freedom to choose which books we were assigned or whether we were assigned books at all.
Not the US govt. but independent audits of TikTok US from e.g. Oracle which never fully went through.

I find the Tiktok ban more of a geopolitics thing, less of a national security reponse.

You cannot just make assertions about something, and without substantiating them _adequately_, say 'they just told a lie, so everything that they said are lies'.

This is rooted in an anti-China rhetoric and only undermines the US position since for more than a decade many western companies' complaints against Chinese partners were about forced technology transfers.

Edit: correct wording and grammar
> What's the "boring" / productive stack for desktop apps?

I've been trying to find it for years. I've started maybe 5ish desktop apps over the last decade and each time did the dance of "QT can't possibly be it...can it?" And then googled and tried everything I could find. In my experience it's all pretty bad. Unironically the best solutions I've found are either Unity/Godot or Electron.
Yep I have also no use for a touch screen device of that size. Happy to get an m4 mac air or whatever it will be called but I'm done with pads.
I confused Sourcetrail and SourceGraph, didn't mean to spread misinformation on your product!
And then you suddenly torpedoed security notifications for the whole company. Nobody noticed for a year that updates were not applied. The rest of the story writes itself.
Seems kind of miserable to work under that bridge all day while trucks are driving over you?
Google's Testing Grouplet
Obviously they use this modem: https://github.com/Rhizomatica/mercury
Any experience with it? How does it compare to VARA oder Pactor?
While certainly misleading, there were situations where the G4 was incredibly fast for the time. I remember being able to edit Video in iMove on a 12" G4 Laptop. At that time there was no equivalent x86 machine.
For templating, that is why I prefer Jinja2 with macros instead of Django templates.

{% macro IssueCard(issue, type) -%}
... lot of HTML
{% endmacro -%}
{% for issue in myissues %}
{% macro IssueCard(issue, 'myissue') %}
{% endfor %}

The alternative is creating template tags, which can be a lot of work, and it gets you out of the templates.

I have a folder called macros/ where I put all the macros I need, and then I use the import call from Jinja2.

I agree with you; having long and deeply nested HTML templates creates too much noise when developing. Jinja2 Macros help with that.
Current nuclear fission reactors can safely and reliably supply all our electricity needs. France rapidly built out their nuclear fleet in response to the 1973 oil crisis, achieving more than 70% of their electricity generation within 20 years. If the political will is there, it can be done.

The problem is that Western elites are corrupt and incompetent. They foolishly outsourced their manufacturing to a rival nation, which is now the rising superpower. Germany shut down its nuclear reactors and spent hundreds of billions on solar, while their manufacturing sector implodes from high electricity prices.

Corporate elites are increasingly extractive as exemplified by rising wealth gap, housing / healthcare / education costs, enshittification of internet platforms, etc. Any narrative which justifies price increases is gleefully propagated by the media hegemons. Climate change is used to markup prices on everything so consumers can feel self-righteous paying through the nose. Yet none of this will make a difference. China, India, and Africa will continue burning the cheapest fuels available to support their development.
Not actually "in Excel", though. The Python code runs on Microsoft's servers (they say in the introduction) and Excel is just a client.

There's no reason they couldn't embed CPython in Excel, but maybe the intention was for the online version of Excel to have feature parity without having to compile Python to JavaScript?
For me personally, I feel that iPadOS > MacOS, especially for a personal device. Also, the touch screen.
Magic Cap
I feel like this is not that terribly different than row homes in the city. They only have windows in the front and back and the back might just be a view of the building backing up on them from the other street. These houses already have a long skinny footprint and it works fine. It doesn't seem that hard to do the same with office buildings. Additionally, amenities like a gym, laundry, community room can all be placed in the center of each floor as desired.
I've only seen one successful project that was able to convert a business office to residential apartments/condos. If I remember correctly, the building had been vacant for a while (it was built in 1986) and the company who bought it got a really good deal and so the conversion was able to happen without having a massive amount to overcome in order to be profitable. The building just had the perfect layout and structure that made it suitable for a conversion. Ironically, the developer filed bankruptcy during the 2008 housing collapse and several other conversions he was aiming to do also went under.

Here's some information about the project:
Cloud 9 Sky Flats: https://www.homes.com/building/cloud-9-at-sky-flats-minneton...

A recent article about one of the condos going up for sale:
https://www.startribune.com/corporate-office-turned-condo-in...
>Yup, that's a native file dialog, but we don't use GTK in Zed and that clearly is GTK — so, how does that work? You'll find the answer in the companion video in which Mikayla and I dive deeper into this and also touch on the question of whether or not we should use GTK or Qt or something else (spoiler: it's complicated).

Unless I missed it, the video doesn't actually answer the question. They talk 38:50 onwards about how they don't want to pull in GTK / Qt as dependencies, rather they just want to be able to read the toolkits' config and render a mimicking UI themselves. Then they show the editor opening a "native" file dialog, but don't actually say how exactly they did it.

Anyway, I assumed they would use xdg-desktop-portal, and based on searching the repo that does seem to be the case.
Even when you're not renting remotely (which is the worst possible option in many cases) you still have tons of other things that can come into play:

* Bad tenants (lost rental revenue, eviction costs, property damage, and they're likely judgement proof so that money is just gone)

* No tenants (price too high, nobody wants to move, nobody wants to rent, etc) - rentals should be calculated on 20% vacancy.

* Other property wear and tear and damage (landlords often very badly budget for big ticket items; to be fair, owners are really bad at it too. The IRS depreciation tables are not gifts; you will pay about 1-4% of the value or more a year in repairs, etc.

* Strange legal issues can crop up, not limited to liability, tenant lawsuit defense, etc. But your property can also be eminent domained, declared a superfund site, or more. Sure, it's unlikely, but if you only have one property and it happens, it's going to hurt.

* And the biggest issue from there being a viable path (outside of appreciation gambling) is that you're competing with other single-family landlords who don't account for or care about the issues above, which drives rental prices down to "a bit more than mortgage payment + taxes".

And then if you succeed with the appreciation, unless you relatively constantly churn your property, you're missing out and falling behind what it could do elsewhere. Appreciation when you're 20% down hits 5x harder than appreciation when you're 100% owning it outright, and every payment brings you from one to the other.

There is a reason that professional real estate companies that invest in housing want to invest in multi-family dwellings, because it lets them control for some or all of the risks above. If you want to move from gambling on appreciation to actually being a profitable landlord, you end up imitating them.
> IME Apple has always been the most honest when it makes performance claims.

I guess you weren't around during the PowerPC days... Because that's a laughable statement.
No, the underlying structure is a DAG. I've already stated this, and that heavy UI affordances should be made to support ease of interaction with this model.
I’m starting to worry that I’m missing out on some huge gains (M1 Air user.) But as a programmer who’s not making games or anything intensive, I think I’m still good for another year or two?
Most gave been mentioned, but as they probably won't be I'll include these:

- The Extended Circle - an Anthology of Humane Thought by Jon Wynne Tyson

- Letters from the Desert by Carlo Carretto
room temp soda is my favorite. there's so much more flavor when it's not cold.

however HOT cola (which can happen if you leave it in a car) is physically painful because something weird happens to the bubbles
> But I wonder if we could challenge the conventional wisdom on conversions of deeper buildings. Could we come up with novel things to do with this deep interior space?

What if every other floor were removed, so all the apartments had loft ceilings? Then light could penetrate from the upper windows deeper into the core of the building. You could even have rooms (like bathrooms or home offices) with lower ceilings and skylights.
You are not alone. There are a lot of startups working to solve this problem: https://ttconsultants.com/top-10-battery-recycling-startups-...

However, you're doing the right thing. It's important to not let the great become the enemy of the good. Yes, there is work to be done to make batteries zero impact. But no matter what's happening in the world of batteries it is nothing compared to the extraordinary destructive force of coal, oil, and gas globally.

https://acespace.org/blog/2024/01/12/top-10-oil-and-gas-indu...

https://www.miningreview.com/coal/the-top-10-coal-mines-of-t...
I generally prefer thin devices to a certain point, and then after that I agree that it’s just fluff. I think showing how a product is “thinner” is an easy way to show that it weighs less, which is what I care about in thin devices.
> You have no escape in case of an emergency

Nobody is exiting the 60th floor of a skyscraper through the window. We don’t even have ladders that go that high on firetrucks in New York [1].

[1] https://www.fdnysmart.org/fire-trucks/ 95 ft, or about 10 stories
I'm writing this from memory, so some details may be wrong but: most high end ssds have dram caches on board, with a capacitor that maintains enough charge to flush the cache to flash in case of power failure. This operates below the system page cache that is standard for all disks and oses.

Apple doesn't do this, and use their tight integration to perform a similar function using system memory. So there is some technical justification, I think. They are 100% price gougers though.
Yeah, you can put beds in whatever room you want. You just can't sell a room with no window as a bedroom.
But do you expect them to say it’s the “soon to be second fastest”?

It’s the fastest available today. And when they release something faster (M4 Pro or Mac or Ultra or whatever) they’ll call that the fastest.

Seems fair to me.
And they will fit in the 8GB RAM with 0.02 bit quant
I don't think GP is making a point about which came first or whatnot. Just sharing a connection they made.
Call it a speakeasy. People seem to love overpriced, secret businesses.
If you can predict the future about what compels people to work for giant corporations for free, go and be a billionaire.
Mountain View, CA.

Happens to be where the Google HQ is too.
That is interesting. Is this discussed anywhere, more formally? I guess the simple reason is that people had more children previously. But then, what about the second order effect that households with fewer children also need less space and would be happy to have an apartment rather than a four bedroom house?
Since memory is on their SoC it makes it challenging to maintain multiple SKUs. This segmentation makes to me as a consumer.
I was under the impression the bridge rolled forward as the works continue.
I am really impressed at how California has scaled up its use of batteries. I remember 5-6 years ago coding on Electricity Maps and seeing almost no storage (link: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO)
As shittily as every other "experiment" in human history where someone thought they were smart enough to set all the rules for other people and treat them as if they were too stupid to make decisions for themselves.
Sounds great to me. After 2008 my flat in the UK was in negative equity -- dropped 40% in 6 months from when I bought in mid 2007.

I eventually sold it in 2016 for just 2% under what I paid for.
I believe what I wrote.

Do note that this applies to Western Europe (more precisely: the Netherlands). And do note that "to be f#ed over" is rather broad and personal. While one person might feel they are truly "f#d" by police" when they get a ticket driving their bike without lights at night, that's obviously not what I mean.

I am by conviction an Anarchist (though certainly not libertarian), and I do see the times and places where government did absolutely f# over minorities here¹. But: hear me out: those are cases where the government, through democratic mandate, made (extremely) bad laws. And then had to abide by their own laws. Sometimes forced by the -independent- courts². Democracy works: "we, the people, voted for incompetent and blasé governors, racists even, who then turned out to be imcompetent and blasé. And in doing so f*d minorities". It's not the government, really, but the will of the people!

Do I trust the police force (the institude)? Not really. But I don't need to, because it is kept in check by a functioning democratic system and courts. Again, this is not the US. Nor Somalia or South Africa. Do I trust a police officer (a human)? Quite probably; in the Netherlands a majority isn't power-tripping nazi scum but rather people with a (imo weird) calling to help.

¹ e.g. a still ongoing case at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...

² e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_crisis_in_the_Netherl...*
> it feels like 90% of road works I pass actually has nobody there working at all. Some go on for years it seems.

That's because the company that wins the tender knows they're competing on the lowest price, and nobody really cares for time to completion. So they're keeping the construction site as a fallback for other construction sites, that are more important to them and have a higher price tag.

It's the equivalent to preemptive pricing for VMs.
One of the biggest problems is that edge connections don't give you enough density. Edge connections are great for serves where you stack 16 channels next to each other, but in a laptop form factor, your capacity is already limited, so you can get more wires coming out of the ram by connecting to the face rather than the edge.
But why did you configure 3 machines with 64+ GB, if 8 GB RAM are "100% perfectly fine" for typical work tasks?

For me personally 16 or 32 GB are perfectly fine, 8 GB was too little (even without VMs) and I've never needed 64 or more. So it's curious to see you are pretty much exactly the opposite.
You are referring to providing a sequential post ID past the current latest? That is more of a quirk of their naming convention than a product feature. UUID's, for instance, would not support this, and checks could be made in either case to prevent it.
> For the Xbox brand they have failed to release quality versions of every major Xbox franchise bar Forza Horizon

They did also release Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2020, which while also available on PC was in my opinion a massive win for Xbox
For my personnal use I've been using a minimalist script for a while : https://github.com/thiswillbeyourgithub/Quick-Whisper-Typer

don't be afraid to contribute it's a bit rough around the edges
for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

of which the most relevant is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208047

What's your explanation of why Pound went Fascist?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3C3nfF3SMA
>is that both 2001 and The Shining both require the viewer to have read the respective books to fully appreciate them.

They do not in any way require that, at all.
Need time and effort to ensure junior docs are thorough. Usually multiple revision in my experience. This require acceptance from management that "just write code fast" is not a success path.
The logo doesn’t show up on mobile unfortunately.
That's assuming the stock price doesn't go down in the time it takes to hit your first (or any meaningful) vesting cliff.
My bedroom has a window, so no. If your bedroom doesn't have a window and you're concerned about another exit, then sure.
1. Economies of scale. The market for an EV is going to be much higher than a whole house battery solution. And most of these solutions are relying on a network of independent contractors to sell and service these batteries. Unlike dealerships, they also aren't buying them at scale.

2. Financing. Most likely you are driving a EV financed by a bank. They've got the process so streamlined you can know within minutes if your 4-wheeled battery bank is coming home with you or not. Trying to get a house battery financed is such a convoluted mess. If it was advertised like a dealership, "Come down to Big Al's Battery Barn. We'll set you up with a 10kWh bank with 0% financing!", I imagine these things would fly off the shelf. Leading back to 1.
But hot cold brew is weird, as you've just been complaining about people not doing it or finding it weird

If hot cold brew was common you wouldn't pay extra for it
I would have said the same thing a few months ago. I had Face ID on my iPhone X, Touch ID on my 6th generation iPad, and had had Touch ID on the iPhone 6 Plus I had before the iPhone X.

My experience with those left me firmly in the "I really would rather have Face ID than Touch ID on my future iPhones and iPads" camp.

A few months ago I replaced the 6th generation iPad due to a heavily degraded battery. The replacement is a 10th generation iPad. The Touch ID on it is a vast improvement over what I'd had on my previous iPad and previous iPhone.

For example it used to be that after washing my hands Touch ID would often have trouble. Apparently when I dry I don't always completely dry my fingertips.

That's not a problem with the new Touch ID. It even has no trouble if I run water over my fingers and then try to unlock the iPad without drying the fingertips at all.
I wonder who has the liability if something goes wrong. I would want the government to be liable to drivers (and assume this would be the case). A private company would need to have tons of insurance to be able to cover the death/destruction that could be caused if it collapsed.
Is authing the Rabbit R1 against your accounts secure? I'm not so sure
Yeah their Watch bands are made of recycled plastic and they don’t use leather anymore. But the quality of the bands is often so bad that you have to replace them after a year or even only some months.
> cheaper than fossil fuels

One needs to specify if this means "cheaper than a new construction fossil fuel plant" or "cheaper than operating an existing fossil fuel plant". Whether a CO2 tax is involved should also be specified. Things will really take off when existing plants can no longer compete (particularly in places like the US where overall demand is growing slowly, if at all). Of course, this will depress the price of the fuel (natural gas is in the doldrums in the US) which will delay things.
iPad Pro's 2024 hardware overachievement eclipses even the iPhone, for the first time. Will iPadOS 18 be unshackled to drive the M4? We'll find out at WWDC next month, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40287922
I'm sorry, but running `rm -rf ...` in a script against $HOME is a bit too reckless for me.

Maybe you haven't lost data from this yet, but this is where Chezmoi has nice guardrails and protects against, e.g., modifications or additions accidentally being made to $HOME instead of the dotfiles dir, which look like they would be silently blown out by your current process.

Just my 2¢ from someone who used to do it this way and lost data because of it.
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